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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 07:06:31 GMT-6
From: Neil G. Sapper NGSAPPER[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PCAD-ML.ACTX.EDU
To: Multiple recipients of list H-SURVEY H-SURVEY[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]msu.edu
Subject: HUMOR: Thought for Wednesday, Nov 15, 1995
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 04:03:02 -0600
From: list TFTD-L TFTD-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU
At a lecture on linguistics, the speaker suggested
that in English there wasn't the opposite of a double
negative, whereby two affirmatives resulted in a negative.
Someone from the audience called out "Yeah, right!" which
brought down the house.
-quoted in the Electronic AIR Newsletter
Wayne Glowka
Professor of English
Director of Research and Graduate Student Services
Georgia College
Milledgeville, GA 31061
912-453-4222
wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu